Yes It Would Have Been Amazing.
This post originally appeared on Smoking Politics.I have an uncle I love dearly, but to say he is a Republican is an understatement. But one thing he has taught me politically is how email has become...
View ArticleI Read The News Today. Oh Boy.
This post originally appeared at Smoking Politics.We often focus, and frankly understandably so, on the big deceptions the Right plays because it's hard not to notice the impact of climate change...
View ArticleBachman, Rove, Palin And The Right's Increasingly Distant Relationship With...
This post originally appeared at Smoking Politics.Steve Benen and Greg Sargent have written some pretty sharp and strong posts about Karl Rove's Crossroads group and the ads they have been running, one...
View ArticlePROP MAIL - "Parenting" The Occupy Protestors
this post originally appeared at Smoking Politics.A new email is circling from the Right, written by a woman who claims to be a parenting expert, but clearly knows very little about the economic...
View ArticlePROP MAIL: What A Coincidence. Not.
this post originally appeared at Smoking Politics. As our inbox gets regularly flooded with examples of the right propaganda email, we look forward to dissecting them and also recognizing those that do...
View Article175 Chickens in 1 Minute?!
You'd think the USDA would see the flaw of logic in letting the people who make the food inspect the food and decide if it is actually safe to eat.The USDA has decided in its infinite wisdom, despite...
View ArticleFalling in Love... with Dirt
Paul Quinn College has found a way to score big on the football field—without playing a single down.
View ArticleRe-Reading Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam" In Vietnam
I haven’t read this since either Groton or Duke. And now I am trying to re-read it before I make it down to the DMZ and before my visit to Khe Sanh next week. It’s such a good and complete history of...
View ArticleDear Max: A Letter To Max Cleland From Hill 471 Khe Sanh
Dear Max:Well, here I am, Hill 471 in Khe Sanh. I came here because I love and admire you and since I was touring Vietnam I figured what the hell, I'll head up to Khe Sanh and find Hill 471 and stand...
View ArticlePlease Meet Skull.
(picture here)Please meet Skull, Skull and I have just met ourselves but it’s been fascinating to get to know him and I think you should know him as well. I say he, as a guess, for really Skull is just...
View ArticleWhy We Need To Keep Paying Attention To The Ossoff Campaign.
It’s been less than a week since Jon Ossoff lost a perfectly winnable race in Georgia and spent over $25,000,000 of our money in doing so — gathering just under 150,000 votes for his, and our...
View ArticleRalph Nader Was, And Is, Absolutely Right.
In 2000, Nader's candidacy was the combination of Comey letter / Russian Rumors that allowed the Gore campaign and the DC consultants to point a finger at something other than their own incompetency...
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